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Apex PhotographicBrendan LesterPhotographerT 410.294.1116Proﬁle@ [email protected]web ﬂickr.com/photos/levintruenoae86I am a professional photographer that specializes in shooting event, architectural, and automotive photography. Born in Columbia, Maryland, I grew up working towards a degree in Mechanical Engineering through high school and my ﬁrst year of college at Virginia Tech. Having always enjoyed the technical while appreciating details, I decided to transfer into a degree for photography at the end of my spring 2007 semester at Virginia Tech. Columbia College Chicago was a proper ﬁt, as urban life always stimulated my mind, and penetrated my thought process.ExperienceTimeOut Chicago − 2010-Present In January 2010, began interning/shooting freelance for TimeOut Chicago. Cold Track Days − 2009-Present In September 2009, began shooting automotive/event coverage photography for http://www.coldtrackdays.com GVA Architects, INC; Columbia, MD − 2007-Present Have worked with George Vaeth Associates to photograph various projects, and present them with a ﬁnal imaging product for use in their portfolio and website. Intern, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab; Laurel, MD −2005-2006 Interned in the Avery Laboratory wind tunnel testing facility in Johns Hopkins APL during senior year of high school. Performed work on testing models, and materials research.EducationColumbia College Chicago, Chicago, Illinois : BA Photography, 2010 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virgnia : BA in Mechanical Engineering, Transfer at the end of Spring 2007 semester. Apex PhotographicSkillsI am currently skilled in shooting digitally (both Canon and Nikon DSLR systems), and with various formats of ﬁlm, including (but notlimited to) most Polaroid systems, 35mm ﬁlm, medium format / Hasselblad systems, and 4x5view camera systems. With ﬁlm, I am capable of shooting both slide and negative ﬁlms, aswell as proﬁcient in how to scan these ﬁlms on Imacon scan systems. I’m also completely competent in most of the Adobe CS4 Design Premium Suite, namely Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.T 410.294.1116@ [email protected]web ﬂickr.com/photos/levintruenoae86